Name A Hacker Camp

Many of us look forward to visiting a summer hacker camp, as an opportunity to immerse ourselves in some of the coolest and most stimulating stuff that comes out of our community. The names trip off the tongue, ToorCamp, CCCamp, EMFcamp, BornHack, and more.

There’s one major event that doesn’t trip off the tongue in the same way though, because though it’s one of the oldest in our calendar it doesn’t have the same name every time. Since the end of the 1980s the Netherlands has seen a sequence of  hacker camps with three letter names such as HAR, OHM, and SHA. Every four years these events delight and amaze us, and every four years they need a new name. Do you think you can help them pick one for 2021?

There are a few ground rules to observe, for the would-be coiner of a new moniker. The tradition is of a three-letter acronym, usually one with a meaning somewhere in technology, and so far always containing the letter H somewhere to stand for “Hack” in some form. The idea is that it should somehow encapsulate the spirit of hacker camp culture rather than simply be three words containing “Hack”. HAR for example was Hacking At Random, OHM was Observe Hack Make, and SHA was Still Hacking Anyway. So if you can dream up a TLA within those parameters, there is a group of hackers in the Netherlands who might like to hear from you. We suspect that HAD is already taken.

If you want to know more about the Netherlands camps, read our review of SHA, in 2017.

Header image: [Renze]. “Met Elkaar Hacken” means something close to “Hack together”.

31 thoughts on “Name A Hacker Camp

  1. When I visited Hackaday today I did not expect to find a name-contest, but let me give it a try:

    HAM : Hack And Modify
    HOW : Hack Our World
    HYP : Hacking Yearly Party
    HUE : Hack United Extraordinary
    HAL : Hack All Life
    HBO: Hack Before Obedience
    HDR: Hack Digital Reality
    HEX: Hack Electric Xylophone (well that one isn’t really useful unless it’s a hacker meeting focusing on musical instruments)
    HID : Hack Interest Daily
    DHL: Daily Hacking Lifestyle

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